Blog
Technical articles on AI agent management, cost tracking, encryption, and building developer tools.
Managing AI Agent Costs Across a Dev Team
Shared dashboards, per-developer attribution, and team budget alerts for the Power tier.
Understanding AI Agent Token Costs: Input, Output, and Cache
How token-based pricing works, input vs. output cost differences, and why cache tokens matter.
Styrby vs. Claude Code Channels: What's Actually Different
Claude Channels are free and native. Styrby adds multi-agent support, E2E encryption, and cost tracking. Here is what matters.
Running AI Agents Overnight: Remote Monitoring for Long Sessions
Leave agents running, get push notifications, approve permissions from your phone, and use budget alerts as safety nets.
End-to-End Encryption for AI Coding Sessions
TweetNaCl box encryption, key exchange, and zero-knowledge architecture for code sessions.
TweetNaCl in Production: Building E2E Encrypted Messaging
Engineering decisions, key generation, performance characteristics, and lessons learned.
Styrby vs. Dispatch: Remote Agent Control Compared
Two different approaches to controlling AI agents remotely. Architecture, encryption, and agent coverage compared.
Tracking AI Spend Per Project With Session Tags
Freelancers and agencies billing AI costs to clients. Use session tags and project paths for cost attribution, then export for invoicing.
How Budget Alerts Prevent Runaway AI Spend
Setting up daily, weekly, and monthly limits with three graduated actions: notify, slow down, and hard stop.
Building Offline-First React Native Apps with Expo SQLite
SQLite setup, queue pattern, sync on reconnect. Tutorial-style with code examples.
How Five AI Coding Agents Compare on Cost (2026)
Real pricing for Claude, GPT-4o, Gemini Pro, and more. Per-token costs, typical session costs, and how to track them.
Setting Up Quiet Hours for AI Agent Notifications
Why 24/7 notifications cause fatigue. Configuring time windows and critical alert bypass.
Remote Permission Approval: Why Your AI Agent Shouldn't Have Root Access
The security case for mobile approval. Risk badges, blocked tool lists, and real examples of dangerous commands.
AI Agent Permissions: Built-in Controls vs. Remote Approval
How all five agents handle permissions differently, from Claude's allowlists to Codex's sandbox. Plus: when remote mobile approval makes sense.
Rate Limiting Strategies for SaaS APIs
Token bucket, sliding window, fixed window. Per-endpoint vs. per-user limits with Upstash Redis.
Session Replay: Reviewing What Your AI Agent Did
How encrypted replay works. Filtering by cost, agent, and project. Bookmarking sessions for later.
From Five Terminals to One Dashboard
Before: checking each agent separately. After: unified view with live status. Practical workflow changes.
Managing AI Agent Costs: Spreadsheets vs. Budget Alerts
The manual way vs. automated real-time tracking with threshold alerts. A practical comparison.
Why We Chose Supabase Over Firebase
Postgres vs. Firestore, row-level security vs. Firestore rules, realtime subscriptions, and the self-host option.
Offline-First Architecture: How Styrby Handles Lost Connections
SQLite on mobile, IndexedDB on web, and the sync protocol that ties them together.
Designing Budget Alert Systems That Don't Cry Wolf
Threshold tuning, graduated actions, and the tradeoffs between period-based and rolling windows.
Error Attribution: Agent, Build Tool, or Network?
Color-coded error classification that saves debugging time by identifying the real source of failures.
The True Cost of AI Coding Assistants in 2026
Annual cost analysis, hidden costs like context window usage and retry loops, and how to estimate monthly spend.
Five Agents, One Dashboard: Why Context Switching Kills Productivity
The problem with five different terminals. Unified status, cost aggregation, and color-coded agents.
Our Security Model: An Open Technical Review
Full security architecture published for peer review. Encryption, auth, data handling, and what we would change.
AI Agent Security: What Developers Should Worry About
Real risks vs. overhyped fears. Unauthorized file access, credential exposure, and practical security measures.
Styrby Roadmap: What's Coming in 2026
iOS app timeline, Android plans, upcoming features, and what we are deliberately not building.
How Developers Actually Use Multiple AI Coding Tools
Usage patterns across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and more. Why developers don't pick just one, and the overhead that creates.
Styrby is Veteran-Owned: Building Software After Service
Military background brings discipline to software engineering. Steel Motion LLC and the tools we build.
Why We Built Styrby
The problem: multiple AI agents with no unified cost or permission visibility. The solution we built.